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With Dakar behind us, it’s time for racing on pavement to begin a new year. And when the green flag waves at the 52nd Rolex 24 At Daytona, a new era in sports car racing begins as well - the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. The 2014 Rolex 24 At Daytona will feature an impressive line up of 67 cars including 18 Prototype, 9 Prototype Challenge, 11 GT Le Mans, and 29 GT Daytona.
GTLM retains all of last year’s ALMS GT-class specs, adding side nets around the driver’...

For the eighth consecutive year, the IZOD IndyCar Series champion was determined in the final race; 500 miles on the 2-mile oval at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. Points-leader and two-time champion Scott Dixon (Target Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda) started 17th. Helio Castroneves (Team Penske, Chevrolet) entered the event 25 points behind, started on the outside of the front row next to pole-sitter and teammate Will Power, and had to win or finish second to even have a shot at the title.
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Will Power (Team Penske, Chevy) won the second race of the IndyCar Grand Prix of Houston, but Scott Dixon (Target Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda) moved into a 25-point lead in the season championships by taking second after having won Race 1 the previous day. Dixon had entered the weekend 49 points behind Power’s Penske teammate, Helio Castroneves, who finished near the bottom of both contests after mechanical problems in each.
The press conference had a subdued overall tone, as all participa...

Takuma Sato (AJ Foyt Enterprises, Honda) talks to the media after winning the pole for Race 1 of the IndyCar Grand Prix of Houston. Sato won earlier this year at Long Beach, but the pole was the Foyt team’s first since 1999. Houston-native Foyt, Indy Cars’ all-time wins leader with 67 stands second on the Indy Car list of all-time pole winners with 52 (behind Mario Andretti, 67).
Sato, who led the 2013 championship chase through the fourth race in Sao Paolo, entered the race week...

The two fastest drivers in Practice 2 for the Grand Prix of Houston – Just in Wilson (Dale Coyne Racing, Honda) and Will Power (Team Penske, Chevrolet) – talked to the press about the course, some of their competitors (Helio Castroneves, Team Penske, Chevy) and their expectations for the qualifying and races ahead.
You can watch the conference below. Listen carefully for a question from Chris, our resident sports car racing devotee.

Hometown team owner AJ Foyt’s driver Takuma Sato (Honda, 1:00.4535) took pole for Race 1 of the IndyCar Grand Prix of Houston, with Will Power (Team Penske, Chevrolet) on the outside of the front row. Sato won earlier this year at Long Beach, but the pole was the Foyt teams first since 1999.
Scott Dixon (Target Chip Ganassi Racing, Honda) finished 0.1522 sec behind Sato in qualifying Group 2 and will start third, with Sebastien Bourdais (Dragon Racing, Chevy), Simon Pagenaud (Schmidt Hami...

Practice was called a minute or two early when Helio Castronves (Team Penske, Chevrolet) spun his car. He avoided damage but still needed to get cleared from the track. Justin Wilson (Dale Coyne Racing, Honda) topped the time sheets at 1:04.4237. Wilson’s been a busy driver, having finished on the podium at the GRAND-AM series finale at Lime Rock last weekend,
Will Power (Team Penske, Chevy, -0.3790), rookie Tristan Vautier (Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Honda, -0.5709), Ry...

Tony Kanaan keeps moving from strength-to-strength. Following a season which saw him earn his first Indy 500 win and set IndyCar’s iron-man record, the driver announced today that he will join Chip Ganassi Racing Teams in the 2014 IndyCar Series. Ganassi announced that it would be shifting from Honda to Chevrolet power plants at the same news conference at the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston.
Kanaan is in his third season with KV Racing Technology. Kanaan turned down an offer fro...